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California Tries to Counteract Residents Fleeing Increased Taxes
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | January 18, 2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 01/18/2013 9:39:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

After California residents voted to increase taxes via Proposition 30, state revenues have decreased, and residents and businesses are leaving to avoid burdensome taxes and regulations.

However, as Forbes notes, “leaving” California “is not always easy”; the state considers anyone in the state for anything other than a temporary or transitory purpose as a resident.

The burden is on the taxpayer to show they are not a Californian. The state presumes anyone who has been in California for at least nine months is a resident.

It “usually takes 18 months” for someone to no longer be presumed a resident, which can make it difficult for people who flee the state to convince the state government they are no longer California residents...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; taxes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes NY plays this game.

I think it is ten years since Rush Limbaugh left NY moving his business and residence to Florida, yet they still harass him every year for taxes; forcing him to prove that he did not do business in NY.


21 posted on 01/18/2013 10:15:42 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Lancey Howard; Jim Robinson

And Jim. Gotta get Jim out, too, before the fence goes up. And all the other Freepers...


22 posted on 01/18/2013 10:16:48 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Psalm 83)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

most high end residental areas in California in the 40s had racial restrictions but most were removed by the 50s.


23 posted on 01/18/2013 10:17:51 PM PST by dalereed
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To: philetus

1. It helps if your company is transferring you to another state.
2. Re-register your car a.s.a.p.
3. Register to vote in your new location.
4. Ensure old post office has your change of address instructions.
5. Tell the California Franchise Tax Board: “Since you don’t give a damn who comes into this state, or from where, I wasn’t aware I had to ask permission to leave!


24 posted on 01/18/2013 10:20:39 PM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: coloradan

About 30 years after we left CA our business in the Pacific Northwest got a bill for 250k from California. I called and told them we didn’t owe because we never did business in CA and this happened about 4 times more before they finally got the picture.

I’d love to move back there but we’re just not rich enough to pay for all those takers the state would assign to us.


25 posted on 01/18/2013 10:21:28 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’ll be like the Marylanders in Southern Pa., they came here to flee high taxes but they never met a tax or regulation they didn’t like and now bring their merry hell to this neck of the woods.


26 posted on 01/18/2013 10:23:45 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I lived in CA from 1960 to 1970 and left at age 11. I’m surprised they haven’t tried to tax me.


27 posted on 01/18/2013 10:25:30 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Fire all politicians and impeach the judges.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll be leaving sooner rather than later. I’m a Confederate rebel.


28 posted on 01/18/2013 10:27:37 PM PST by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Which State will become the first 100% government-operated State: New York or California, after all private sector businesses have fled???


29 posted on 01/18/2013 10:28:37 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Well, at least the California reds still allow people to leave. Communists are known for walling in the slaves.


30 posted on 01/18/2013 10:29:22 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hear E Berlin has a few extra bricks and guard towers for sale cheap.


31 posted on 01/18/2013 10:33:33 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then there's this guy.

"California man empties grandkids' piggy banks to pay his $14,000 property tax bill in CHANGE"

32 posted on 01/18/2013 10:39:45 PM PST by 444Flyer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When we were in California, our business was incorporated there, for which we were charged a minimum of $800 a year for the privilege (whether we made money or not).

After moving to Texas in 2005, we got letters from the California Franchise Tax Board, demanding we pay $800 for the each of the years since we'd left. That went on for at least three years.

I've never answered them, but maybe I should. They're probably still racking up tax bills on that corp., which no longer even exists.

33 posted on 01/18/2013 10:42:21 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 444Flyer

That guy should have kept the change, the nickels at least are worth more than paper.


34 posted on 01/18/2013 10:46:54 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

That or wheat pennies.


35 posted on 01/18/2013 10:56:48 PM PST by 444Flyer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
,,,you can check out any time you want

But you can never leave....

36 posted on 01/18/2013 11:02:47 PM PST by Mobilemitter (We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves.........)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
,,,you can check out any time you want

But you can never leave....

37 posted on 01/18/2013 11:02:55 PM PST by Mobilemitter (We must learn to fin >-)> for ourselves.........)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They already made a movie about it.


38 posted on 01/18/2013 11:05:42 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s risky just passing through California. A few years ago we were sailing from Washington to Hawaii and ducked into Eureka Harbor to shelter from bad weather. We were there for six weeks. They sent us a bill for property taxes on our boat, a USCG Documented vessel, registered home port in Honolulu.


39 posted on 01/18/2013 11:14:10 PM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I got out of CA in 2005 (to Washington), but have been back for the past 13 months dealing with the mother-in-law’s estate. Leasing the house in WA out for a second year while we sort this mess out in L.A. So far I’m still maintaining that I’m a WA resident... renewing my car stuff remotely, paying business taxes online in WA, and so on. We’ll see what happens.


40 posted on 01/18/2013 11:14:49 PM PST by Cementjungle
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